save-entropy.sh revision 71014 
1#!/bin/sh
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27# $FreeBSD: head/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh 71014 2001-01-14 07:18:31Z dougb $
28
29# This script is called by cron to store bits of randomness which are
30# then used to seed /dev/random on boot.
31
32# Originally developed by Doug Barton, DougB@FreeBSD.org
33
34PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
35
36# If there is a global system configuration file, suck it in.
37#
38if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
39	. /etc/defaults/rc.conf
40	source_rc_confs
41elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
42	. /etc/rc.conf
43fi
44
45case ${entropy_dir} in
46[Nn][Oo])
47	exit 0
48	;;
49*)
50	entropy_dir=${entropy_dir:-/var/db/entropy}
51	;;
52esac
53
54entropy_save_sz=${entropy_save_sz:-2048}
55entropy_save_num=${entropy_save_num:-8}
56
57if [ ! -d "${entropy_dir}" ]; then
58	umask 077
59	mkdir "${entropy_dir}" || {
60	    logger -is -t "$0" The entropy directory "${entropy_dir}" does not \
61exist, and cannot be created.  Therefore no entropy can be saved. ;
62	    exit 1;}
63	/usr/sbin/chown operator:operator "${entropy_dir}"
64	chmod 0700 "${entropy_dir}"
65fi
66
67umask 377
68
69for file_num in `jot ${entropy_save_num} ${entropy_save_num} 1`; do
70	if [ -e "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" ]; then
71		if [ -f "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" ]; then
72			new_num=$(($file_num + 1))
73			if [ "${new_num}" -gt "${entropy_save_num}" ]; then
74				rm -f "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}"
75			else
76				mv "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" \
77				    "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${new_num}"
78			fi
79		else
80			logger -is -t "$0" \
81"${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num} is not a regular file, and therefore \
82it will not be rotated. Entropy file harvesting is aborted."
83			exit 1
84		fi
85	fi
86done
87
88dd if=/dev/random of="${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.1" \
89    bs=2048 count=1 2> /dev/null
90
91exit 0
92
93